Example sentences of "of [noun] when [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I 'VE been told I retain a lot of moisture when I eat .
2 He had been delighted to the point of euphoria when she had bought the Victorian clothes .
3 It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do .
4 I when I see him when I see , George does a lot of housekeeping when I see him clearing the bed I say oh goodness look book .
5 In any long-standing power relationship the person or group losing each conflict must have interests which are suppressed , and either do not appear in the public realm or quickly founder for lack of support when they do materialize .
6 Unlike Mr Crosby , the Norwich manager did not have the groundswell of support when he was appointed .
7 But I thought Ian might need a bit of support when he gets out . ’
8 it 's a matter of look when you go in the market
9 Unpleasant and smelly as the operation was , she felt a surge of exultation when she cut the thread of the last suture and surveyed her unconscious patient .
10 ALEXANDER Dubcek won world fame as a symbol of hope when he headed the illfated ‘ Prague Spring ’ reform that was crushed by Soviet tanks in August 1968 .
11 ‘ I know he was very wrong to rob me but I 'm grateful he had a change of heart when I took ill .
12 However , Moon has a change of heart when he sees the place , and later , after a night spent drinking hallucinatory ayahuasca , parachutes in alone , strips off his clothes , and persuades the Indians to accept him .
13 No-one can have shown Americans round cities such as London , Brighton or Bristol and not been subjected to gasps of horror when they see the depredation wrought on them by ill-sited high buildings and demolished streets .
14 You 're up against the factory conveyor belt system of sewing when you , one person does only ears and the other does bodies and
15 Employing the same double-delta wing shape as the Lockheed design , originally pioneered by the SAAB Draken , the Tu–144 suffered the most public of tragedies when it crashed at the Paris Air Show .
16 Dr Enevoldson said the more records of blood and bone marrow types she has , the more chance of helping patients like the England and Spurs striker 's baby son , who was taken ill with a form of leukaemia when he was only a few months old .
17 She fell into the world of photography when she stumbled by chance across some equipment in the cupboard of her student flat .
18 It 's the kind of angle that makes us look at the space of the room that 's being photographed and the arrangement of objects in the room rather than the subjective viewpoint of the picture taker — recalling the very beginnings of photography when it was a simple recording device , and before it was considered a means of expression , when it sometimes did n't strive to imitate painting .
19 It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing .
20 And I said well you 'll have an interest to keep it clean I mean I 'm sure you just do it out of necessity when it 's not your furniture .
21 The answer to that was made plain to him with a stab of dread when he ventured to peer out of his embrasure , for the tall figure was already at the top of the staircase and advancing silently and at leisure along the stone corridor .
22 In another room they had a stroke of luck when they came across a large paper bag of fruit , a couple of packets of biscuits , a tin of shortbread , a jar of butterscotch and an unopened bottle of Johnnie Walker whisky .
23 Zborowski had a stroke of luck when he came back .
24 A vice-principal of a teachers ' university probably spoke on behalf of many party members in positions of responsibility when he said that some young comrades lacked the ‘ backbone of Marxism-Leninism ’ , especially those studying liberal arts subjects .
25 That 's why I feel a certain amount of responsibility when I 'm writing .
26 Faces reddened at the Ministry of Defence when it was revealed that a thief had snatched top-secret documents about the Gulf from an unlocked car on December 17th .
27 And as there are four times as many outbreaks in the home than in hotels , takeaways and restaurants etc , it is clear that the domestic kitchen is the last line of defence when it comes to food hygiene .
28 The neighbouring RAF bases at Bentwaters and Woodbridge in Suffolk , to be vacated by the U.S. Air Force next year , will not be required by the Ministry of Defence when it takes over full control of the sites .
29 On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates .
30 Non-cooperation , as Gandhi understands it , does not always have to be an act of love in the same way as satyāgraha has to be , but it is in act of love and consequently a branch of satyāgraha when it seeks to promote the good of a wrongdoer .
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